RE: NBWin: crashes

[mebennun@nospam.icon.co.za]

Ummmmm........

Try switching off and unloading any anti-virus pgm - NAV, Trend, 
whatever. I have found an improvement after this, having been 
advised on the point yonks ago. I think the theory is that NB likes 
writing to its .exe files as it runs, and this makes AV software as 
mad as a snake.

This of course raises all sorts of issues. I have stopped my NAV 
from doing its thing at boot, and run it as a stand-alone pgm 
according to some sort of schedule. But is this the best system?

Talking of snakes..... last week Chutneyfex and I went up the west 
coast, towards Namibia. We were driving on a long, little-used 
gravel by-road many miles from anywhere, and came across a snake 
writhing in the middle of the road. I pulled over next to it and 
stopped immediately, as snakes are not often seen though they are 
fairly common - venomous and non-venomous ones of all sizes. We were 
very upset, as it appeared to have been injured - perhaps by another 
car. We're not good on snake identifications yet - our speciality is 
birds and plains game (antelope etc and mammalian predators) which 
are much more easily seen, and we don't carry a reptile field manual 
in the car - and so we carefully noted its features, Geraldine 
photographed it,  and then I picked it up in my hands and moved it to 
the side of the road. We were terribly upset. It was a large and 
beautiful golden-yellow creature, about 4 feet long.

When we got back to Cape Town I checked the field manual.

I have the luck of an idiot. It was a cobra, no less. We carry no 
anti-venene (not that one can do a hell of a lot for a cobra bite 
outside a full hospital A and E unit!), and we were deep in the 
bundu.... ho hum.....

I'll use my camera tripod next time I want to handle an unidentified 
snake, and I'm taking my reptile manual in future!

Mervyn

> Date:          Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:25:29 -0600 (CST)
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> From:          "Earls, JP" <JEarls@nospam.csbsju.edu>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE <notabene@nospam.hamline.edu>
> Subject:       RE: NBWin: crashes

> To John Berg and others--
> I have Outlook running all of the time.  I cannot remember having crashes for
> many moons.  Maybe there's something else playing.
> 
> J. P. Earls, OSB
> English Department
> St. John's University
> Collegeville, MN 56321
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John C. Berg [mailto:jberg@nospam.world.std.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 5:53 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
> Subject: RE: NBWin: crashes
> 
> 
> I, too, find that NBWin is likely to crash if I have Outlook open at the
> same time.  I hope they fix this! The whole idea of Windows is supposed to
> be multi-tasking, right?
> 
>               -John
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